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Hey, I created this thread to get your feedback on our blog post around changes to the Web API extended access criteria, which will take place on May 15th. Please share any of your thoughts on this change in the comments below. All of your feedback w...
Are there any events emitted by the podcast embed that I can attach callbacks to? I'm interested in something like the player_state_changed.
Are there any events emitted by the podcast embed that I can attach callbacks to? I'm interested in something like the player_state_changed.
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PlanPremiumCountryUSADevice(iPhone 8, Samsung Galaxy 9, Macbook Pro late 2016)Operating SystemMacOS 10 My Question or Issue Hi Spotify team, I am trying to call the User Authorization endpoint as specified here: https://developer.spotify.com/document...
Plan Premium Country USA Device (iPhone 8, Samsung Galaxy 9, Macbook Pro late 2016) Operating System MacOS 10 My Question or Issue Hi Spotify team, I am trying to call the Us...
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PlanPremiumCountryUSA Hi - I tried replying to a recent unresolved thread with this same problem but got not response from Spotify: https://community.spotify.com/t5/Spotify-for-Developers/Getting-a-502-bad-gateway-when-trying-to-read-me-tracks/td-p/5...
Plan Premium Country USA Hi - I tried replying to a recent unresolved thread with this same problem but got not response from Spotify: https://community.spotify.com/t5/Spotify...
Music Fan
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PlanPremiumCountryCanadaDevice(Ryzen 7 3700X, 16GB RAM, 300Mbps download speed)Operating System(Windows 11) My Question or IssueThe open.spotify.com interface doesn't use loaders or check success or failure for events such as: adding to queue, shuffl...
Plan Premium Country Canada Device (Ryzen 7 3700X, 16GB RAM, 300Mbps download speed) Operating System (Windows 11) My Question or Issue The open.spotify.com interface doesn't use loa...
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The subject line sums it up. If there's not a way to submit, is there a forum within the Spotify community we could share things we've developed using Spotify's API? The closest forum I'd assume would be "Discussion & Promo", but one community guidel...
The subject line sums it up. If there's not a way to submit, is there a forum within the Spotify community we could share things we've developed using Spotify's API? The closest forum I'd as...
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I'm looking for an explanation on an ambiguous prohibited use case, and a more reasonable way to appeal on a quota extension rejection without refilling the entire form and waiting for an automatic response that does not explain the inconsistencies i...
I'm looking for an explanation on an ambiguous prohibited use case, and a more reasonable way to appeal on a quota extension rejection without refilling the entire form and waiting for an automatic r...
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I want to get as a JSON file the contents of my Spotify library, mainly liked songs and playlists. Spotify's web API provides that, but I am not experienced with web applications.However I am experienced with Python, and I try to implement what the S...
I want to get as a JSON file the contents of my Spotify library, mainly liked songs and playlists. Spotify's web API provides that, but I am not experienced with web applications. However I am exper...
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Hi Spotify team and community, I was wondering whether it is possible to query the record pool that is behind semi-curated-algotorial, also called algotorial, playlists such as Easy On Sunday. Currently, the https://api.spotify.com/v1/playlists endpo...
Hi Spotify team and community, I was wondering whether it is possible to query the record pool that is behind semi-curated-algotorial, also called algotorial, playlists such as Easy On Sunda...
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Requests to scannables.scdn.co return "no healthy upstream"
Requests to scannables.scdn.co return "no healthy upstream"
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I want to know that what information spotify wants about scopes in quota extension request?
I want to know that what information spotify wants about scopes in quota extension request?
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So I've been trying to fetch my top songs with the code below, but the get request is returning an empty string. What exactly am I doing wrong?-----------------------------------------import jsonimport requestsCLIENT_ID = 'xxxxx'CLIENT_SECRET = 'xxxx...
So I've been trying to fetch my top songs with the code below, but the get request is returning an empty string. What exactly am I doing wrong? ----------------------------------------- import jso...
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PlanFree/PremiumCountry: US Device(Pixel 6, Samsung Galaxy 9, Hawei)Operating System(Android.) My Question or Issue After months of smooth authentication, I have suddenly been getting the following exception when I try to connect to remote app : {"me...
Plan Free/Premium Country: US Device (Pixel 6, Samsung Galaxy 9, Hawei) Operating System (Android.) My Question or Issue After months of smooth authentication, I...
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Hi everyone! Would a Non-Streaming SDA that aggregates and analyzes user-specific usage data from different platforms be compliant with the Developer Policy? We are concerned about Section III.5 & III.13 What we plan:Our product matches users based o...
Hi everyone! Would a Non-Streaming SDA that aggregates and analyzes user-specific usage data from different platforms be compliant with the Developer Policy? We are concerned about Section I...
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My Question or Issue:I am doing some discovery on your 'https://developer.spotify.com/console/get-search-item/' endpoint and am having issues when searching via 'upc'. I've tried several variations of the following with no luckhttps://api.spotify.com...
My Question or Issue: I am doing some discovery on your 'https://developer.spotify.com/console/get-search-item/' endpoint and am having issues when searching via 'upc'. I've tried seve...
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Would software that automatically skips part of Spotify songs be allowed?Say, for example, that I want a specific part of a Spotify song to be skipped every time it comes on.Would software that does this for me be allowed by the Spotify developer ter...
Would software that automatically skips part of Spotify songs be allowed? Say, for example, that I want a specific part of a Spotify song to be skipped every time it comes on. Would software that d...
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Plan: PremiumCountry: United StatesDevice: Macbook ProOperating System: MojaveBrowser: Chrome My Question or IssueI cannot transfer playback to my web app. This used to work just fine, but is throwing a new error I haven't seen before. I'm able to cr...
Plan: Premium Country: United States Device: Macbook Pro Operating System: Mojave Browser: Chrome My Question or Issue I cannot transfer playback to my web app. This used to work j...
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I'm unsure who to contact in this case, but I wrote an object-oriented Spotify API wrapper a couple of years ago and put it open source on NPM. https://www.npmjs.com/package/enhanced-spotify-api I made a website for the documentation and was hosting ...
I'm unsure who to contact in this case, but I wrote an object-oriented Spotify API wrapper a couple of years ago and put it open source on NPM. https://www.npmjs.com/package/enhanced-s...
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Hello! I'm a developer out of Austin, Texas and over the last two years I've been building out a full-stack web application that integrates with Spotify's API and Web Playback SDK that I'm just launching. Now that I'm working on onboarding new users,...
Hello! I'm a developer out of Austin, Texas and over the last two years I've been building out a full-stack web application that integrates with Spotify's API and Web Playback SDK that I'm just launc...
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Hey folks, I'm having an issue implementing the iOS Spotify SDK, my objective is to get the user’s spotifyAccessToken and spotifyRefreshToken, as it is now is partially working, if the user log in using the web browser everything works well, but when...
Hey folks, I'm having an issue implementing the iOS Spotify SDK, my objective is to get the user’s spotifyAccessToken and spotifyRefreshToken, as it is now is partially working, if the user log in us...
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Stopped updating since Friday. Anyone else experiencing this? Any news from the Spotify team?
Stopped updating since Friday. Anyone else experiencing this? Any news from the Spotify team?
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